Autry v. Wj Estelle a-197’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2005 · most notably Strickland v. Washington (1984), McFarland v. Scott (1994)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Barefoot v. Estelle · Tison v. Arizona · Autry v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Had applicant convinced four Members of the [Supreme] Court that certiorari would be granted on any of his claims, a stay would issue. But this is not the case; fewer than four Justices, would grant cer-tiorari. Applicant thus fails to satisfy one of the basic requirements for the issuance of a stay.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]ederal habeas is [not] a means by which a defendant is entitled to delay an execution indefinitely. The procedures adopted to facilitate the orderly consideration and disposition of habeas petitions are not legal entitlements that a defendant has a right to pursue irrespective of the contribution these procedures make toward uncovering constitutional error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McFarland v. Scott“injects uncertainty and disparity into the review procedure, adds to the burdens of counsel, distorts the deliberative process within this Court, and increases the risk of error”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.